To:G. V. PLEKHANOV, CHAIRMAN OF THE PARTY COUNCIL[1]

Written:Written January 23, 1904 in Geneva (local mail)Published:First published in 1929.

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      Moscow,Volume 34,

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Wewould propose getting together for a meeting of the Council on
Monday, January 25, at 4 p.m., in the Landolt restaurant. If you appoint a
different place and time, please let us know not later than Sunday, for one
of us lives far away from Geneva.

Asregards secretarial duties, we think it should be possible to
restrict ourselves to the services of Comrade Martov, who was already
appointed secretary of the Council at its first meeting.

Wewould emphatically protest against Comrade Blumenfeld as secretary
for, in the first place, he does not observe the rules of secrecy (he
informed Druyan of Lenin’s membership of the Central Committee); secondly,
he is too expansive, so that there is no guarantee of calm and
business-like qualities, and there is even the danger of a row and of
having the door locked. Thirdly, we may have to discuss him personally on
the Council, as purchaser of party literature.

Ifyou consider a special person necessary as secretary, we propose for
this Comrade Bychkov, who is one of the old members of theIskraorganisation and a prominent Party activist (a member of the Organising
Committee); moreover he is the most impartial and capable of recording
everything calmly.

Councilmembers....

P.S.I shall have to come to Geneva specially for the Council meeting,
and the mail takes rather a long time reaching Mornex. I would ask you
therefore to send me aletter not later than Sunday (during the day), if the meeting is
fixed for Monday, otherwise the notice will not reach me in time.

Alternatively,I would ask you to postpone the meeting until Wednesday.

Myaddress is: Mornex ....